Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born October 30, 1935, New York City, United States), aged 91, is an American journalist and author. Caro is best known for The Years of Lyndon Johnson and The Power Broker. Caro's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and National Humanities Medal.
Robert Caro’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Caro’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Robert in the U.S.?
#92
US rank in 2025
~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1935, Robert came 1st among boys and 426th among girls, carried by 56,527 American boys and 231 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets Robert apart
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert does not do surface. The core of Robert is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Robert is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Robert needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Robert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Robert is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Robert does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Robert's birth date. Working below.
Where Robert sits
Six lines
Robert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Robert Caro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 13% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Robert Caro's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Robert Caro was born on October 30, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Robert Caro's birth date, October 30, 1935, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Caro's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Robert Caro combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.2° orb
Robert’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.4° to 0.7° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarstrineUranus1.6° to 2.3° orb
Robert’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.2° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 15°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 15°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°34′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 5°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.1°
More people like Robert
Other writers
- C. K. Williams1936
- Mark Strand1934
- A. S. Byatt1936
- Mary Oliver1935
- Joanna Russ1937
- N. Scott Momaday1934
Born in United States
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- Charles WrightAmerican writer; University of Virginia professor (born 1935)
- Barry C. BarishAmerican physicist
- William RaspberryAmerican journalist
- Paul ZindelAmerican dramatist and children's writer
- Martha Rivers IngramAmerican business executive, emerita chairman (Ingram Industries), billionaire heiress
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on October 30
- Diego Maradona1960
- Ivanka Trump1981
- Devin Booker1996
- Nia Long1970
- Ashley Graham1987
- Simon Doonan1952
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
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- Diane von FürstenbergBelgian-born American fashion designer
- RayeBritish singer-songwriter
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Other Steadfast Architects
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Robert’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q373423 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Caro at Wikipedia, robertcaro.org, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Caro.
Quick answers about Robert Caro’s chart
- How old is Robert Caro?
- Robert Caro is 91 years old, born October 30, 1935 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Caro?
- Robert Caro is a Scorpio: born October 30, 1935, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Caro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1935 birth.
- What is Robert Caro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Caro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Caro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Caro's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
